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7 unusual facts about Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation


Bank of Canton

1939 The government of Siam (Thailand), during an outreak of widespread anti-Chinese feeling, closed the local branch of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation and the branches of BoC, charging the banks with facilitating illegal remittances by Chinese residents.

Choor Singh

Impatient with nothing to do following his retirement, for about four and a half years from 1981 Choor Singh acted as a personal consultant for Tan Chin Tuan, the Chairman of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), and other companies in the OCBC group such as Great Eastern Life and Overseas Assurance Corporation.

Ho Hong Bank

Difficulties brought on by the Great Depression forced the Ho Hong Bank to merge in 1932 with the Oversea-Chinese Bank (OCB) and the Chinese Commercial Bank (CCB) to form the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC).

OCBC Singapore Continental Cycling Team

OCBC Singapore Continental Cycling Team (UCI Team Code: TSI) is a Singaporean UCI Continental cycling team managed by Justin Cheong Weiwen and sponsored by Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC).

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation

As of September 30, 2010, Bank OCBC NISP has total assets of Rp 40.2 trillion and serves customers through a network of 411 offices in 62 cities and 576 ATMs throughout Indonesia and also facilitates transactions in more than 37,500 ATMs (including ATM Bersama, Bank Central Asia, OCBC Bank in Singapore and BankCard in Malaysia) with the support of 5,995 employees.

Singaporean presidential election, 1993

However, some members of the Cabinet and the People's Action Party supported Chua, including Finance Minister Richard Hu and former Trade Minister and then-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Tony Tan Keng Yam.

Yong Pung How

That same year, Yong was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation.


Cinder Road

The band toured up and down the eastern seaboard from Canada to Key West and oversea trips to Southeast Asia playing shows for the Armed Forces Entertainment (AFE) network in Japan, Korea, Guam, as well as other remote areas such as Greenland and the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

Desiderio Costa

The Salazar regime in Portugal regarded the colonies as oversea provinces, but denied even those limited rights available under the Salazar dictatorship to the majority of the population of the colonies.

Fachhochschule Flensburg

Oversea partners are the University of North Carolina, the North-West University in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa and the Polytechnic of Namibia in Windhoek.

Lim Peng Siang

In 1932, The Chinese Commercial Bank and the Ho Hong Bank merged with the Oversea-Chinese Bank to form the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, later known as OCBC.


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